Books: G. M.

GENERAL MANPOWER—John S. Martin—Simon & Schuster ($2.50).

Suppose a body-builder like Bernarr Macfadden took a tip from a professional strikebreaker like Bergoff, and then prospered like nobody's business until he turned into a potentate like the late, generally unlamented Sir Basil Zaharoff. On such an alarming supposition John Stuart Martin bases General Manpower, his first novel.

Jonathan Orestes Jones was a puny lad, but he was smart enough to get a job as usher at Roxy's Theatre, and do bodybuilding exercises on the side. Result: he became a Grade-A physical specimen, soon headed his...